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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

OUR TRIP!! Itinerary for the 2 wks we are gone!

10/19   Leave U.S. for Beijing.  Please check your tickets for specific information.

10/20   Arrive in Beijing 
            Go to the Holiday Inn Downtown Hotel. Free time. Enjoy!

10/21   Tour Beijing. Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Hutong Tour, and optional acrobatics show

10/22   Tour Beijing. Great Wall

10/23   Depart Beijing for Zhengzhou Go to the Crown Plaza Hotel. 
10/24   Take a bus to the registration office to receive your child this afternoon.  Congratulations!
Pingdingshan - The Orphanage Officer Ms. Wang Ling Juan will deliver your child to you
This afternoon, all families will sign the Guardianship Agreement.

10/25   All families will take a bus to the registration office to complete the Adoption Registration in the morning.
Rest or optional group shopping trip to the Lotus Center (or Wal-Mart) in the afternoon. 10/26   Free time or rest.
Optional tours maybe available please ask Yisha for details. Pay as you go. 

10/27   Free time or rest.  Optional tours maybe available please ask Yisha for details.
Receive your notary documents in the afternoon.
10/28   Receive your passports.
Leave Zhengzhou for Guangzhou on China Southern flight CZ 3619 (18:10-20:25).
Welcomed by CCAI representatives Kathy

10/29   Take bus to Shamian Island to complete your child’s visa physical and visa photo taken this morning. 
10/30   Free day in Guangzhou. Pay you go

                                    Banicky, Chisholm, Langley, Natale:
Your family has a US Consulate Appointment on MONDAY, October 31st.
PLEASE FOLLOW THE SCHEDULE BELOW.

10/31   Today is your Consulate appointment. 
Your CCAI representative will deliver your visa packets to the U.S. Consulate Adoption Unit in the morning.  In the afternoon you will go to the U.S. Consulate to take the oath.  
11/1     A CCAI representative will go to the U.S. Consulate to receive your child’s visa packet
DO NOT OPEN YOUR CHILD’S VISA PACKET!
Prepare to leave for home..

11/2      Langley - Leave Guangzhou for Shanghai on China Eastern Flight MU 5316 @ 7:55-9:55.
When you arrive in Shanghai please proceed to your hotel. Booked by you

We got to Shanghai and see the Shanghai Healing Home, where Zoey has been since she was 10 days old, and our AMAZING friend that GOd placed in our lives, Charlene (and her husband Mike) will come and get us and take us for a tour of Shanghai! HOW AMAZING is that?? We are sooo excited!! Thank you Charlene and Mike! You have NO idea how much this means to us!!!
 Our flight leaves a little after 10 on the 3rd and we will arrive home at 4:15 pm on the 3rd in Memphis!

This is what we will be doing so I thought you would like to know. PLEASE pray for us when it comes to ALL of these things...esp the flights and Gotcha day! Remember we are 13 hours ahead of you so we will post either at night or in the am, so you can check at night or in the am also to see if we have posted. There might be days that we can't connect or are having trouble with Zoey or something, but we will try to get on here and atleast let you know what's going on!
PLEASE leave comments for us. You would not believe how much it helped us when we were there for Olivia. We read everyone. YOu can leave some for Mr. Willie and Mrs. Betty too because they will be close by and we will let them look and even post if they want to!!
Sometime in the next few days I will post prayer concerns. We CHERISH your prayers and feel that is the only way we will get through these 2 wks. Our God is an AWESOME God and HE has put this whole adoption into place for HIS glory! We feel it an amazing blessing that HE has chosen us to bring these girls out of a place that His name would probably never cross their ears and here to a place where His name will always be in their ears! Yes, she is a lucky girl! NOT because We have her as a daughter or anything but because she has a second chance to spend eternity with our Lord and Savior AND be loved by a family! But WE are lucky because God chose her from the beginning of creation to be our daughter and we get to raise not only one, but now two BEAUTIFUL CHINESE girls! Thank you God for this awesome priviledge!
More to come..when I have time! :)



Just HAD to show you this!!!

SO, in case some of you have NO idea what this is!! Notice we are #1 (Zoeymakes7) and  it says SAFE TRAVELS by it!!! *(the first group is I600 and we are I800 so different requirements and time frame. I had to move up on the second #1 spot, not the first) Well, this is a point I have been waiting on for MANY months!!! Not only am I #1, I'm not PINK!!! This is a chart that an amazing woman does on a forum that has saved me with BOTH adoptions. It's helped me know time frames, stats and I have found MANY friends on this chart! It was my steady when I didn't know how long our wait could be! Although it might not mean much to you, to me, it means we are about to get our baby girl and it's an AMAZING feeling to be PINK with SAFE TRAVELS beside my name! And NOW...my friend Mary is #1 (first one in green) which means SOON she will be going to get her baby girl and be PINK also!!! What an amazing ride this has been!!!

Monday, October 10, 2011

8 days til we leave (well, in the am in will be!)

Today we received the email about our final conference call. I am pretty sure that is the call that made it real when we were adopting Olivia! Josh and maybe Lilly (the founders of my agency) are  supposed to get on there and talk to us. It will be interesting!
We have our flights booked and I was able to get a hotel in Shanghai (I had to book that bc the day before is where my agency's duties stop) Unfortunately it's 41 miles from the airport, but all the ones closer were booked up! I guess the Trade Fair has ppl staying there. But my part is done. All we are waiting on is the final travel packet which they said should come Wednesday or Thursday! So after that, we are ready to go!
WOW!! IT's getting closer. I am SOOO terrified to fly, still! IT's really only my second time on a plane, so I guess it's okay, but I was hoping it would be easier this time.
We leave from Memphis at 9:21 on the 19th. Fly a little over 5 hours to Seattle and have a 7 hour layover! UUGHH!! Then fly to Beijing on our 11 hour flight! SO...PLEASE pray. I'm not just saying that..PLEASE pray for me to feel at ease (and Olivia and Mrs. Betty..the men say they aren't worried) and pray that the plane flies SMOOTH!!! No crashes, no electrical problems, no gas problems, no TURBULANCE and no landing problems. AND that it arrives and lands on time!! I am going to compile a list of prayer things in a little while, but for now, if you would start praying for this, I would really apprecite it!!! We have to take 7 different planes for this trip...so I'm really nervous!!
Well, until our itinery comes in..this is it for now! WOW!! A day over a week! AHH!!! We are coming Zoey Fei!!! We love you!!!